The Horizon 2010 report on emerging technologies for education

Johnson, L., Levine, A., Smith, R., & Stone, S. (2010). The 2010 Horizon Report. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium

The New Media Consortium’s annual report on emerging technologies is out. It follows previous formats in identifying six technologies over three time periods. This year the authors picked the following:

One year or less

mobile computing
open content

Two to [...]

The future of learning: a British perspective

The Online Educa Berlin 2009 conference, as usual, has a number of interesting sessions planned for its up-coming conference, December 2-4th, 2009. Among them is:

The Future of Learning
Are we meeting the needs of our students? This crucial question will be one of the hot topics at this year’s OEB, and the three keynote speakers at [...]

Information-rich and attention-poor

Nicholson, P. (2009) Information-rich and attention-poor Globe and Mail, September 12

In one of Canada’s national newspapers, the Globe and Mail, Peter Nicholson, the President of the Council of Canadian Academies (formerly named Academy of Sciences), writes about the impact of new information technology on the nature of knowledge. He makes a number of arguments, among [...]

The Future of the Internet III

Anderson, J. and Rainie, L. (2008) The Future of the Internet III Pew Internet & American Life Project

A survey of internet leaders, activists and analysts shows they expect major tech advances as the phone becomes a primary device for online access, voice-recognition improves, artificial and virtual reality become more embedded in everyday life, and the [...]